Jamie Gonzalez, photographer and film maker, and one of those few people who has an idea of what’s going on with the Palm Pre. According to his twitter feed (Edit: since removed), Mr. Gonzalez yesterday evening was at Warner Bros. film studio, with the following remark:

Back at Warner Bros! Palm Pre in the house... It's the iPhone for chicks! LOL

We’ll forget the comment about the Pre being the iPhone for chicks, unless he’s saying that the Pre is for the more discerning half of the population, but then that calls into question my own judgment, so we won’t go there. Gonzalez redeems himself, however, he took a picture! From all appearances, that’s a giant extruded version of the desktop browser version of Facebook. How that’s going to feature into the commercial their filming, and why it couldn’t be a giant CGI extruded version of Facebook, I don’t know. Any ideas?

my guess on the stone wall and desert landscape is that someone will be "in the desert", but because of their Pre and its facebook abilities, they are still connected to everyone - even in the desert... I can see the camera starting off close in on the person, then panning out and up?? ...or something like that. (why am I even thinking about this??!!)

What this means is, this particular commercial is still in production. I am sure there were other commercials produced prior to this one. There will more commercials after this. The Pre has already made a cameo appearance in Sprints Now campaign.

Sure Facebook is a website but it is a very recognizable website that will appeal to the masses. I would imagine they will have one marketing campaign geared to business users and another campaign that is geared more towards the current iPhone user crowd.

Of course you can, but this site is filling with comments from idiots who keep parroting spin that applications already on iphone, windows and android are somehow new and invented with pre. Either they are idiots or pretty poorly infomred hacks.

No the Pre is not going to be "the ultimate twitter phone", twitter is one feature of the Pre. Apple is not buying twitter, that is nothing more than an internet rumor. Apple is all about profit, twitter does not fit their business model. Besides, Apple is in hot water with the FTC, due to the fact that Apple and Google share board members. That is a violation of the law.

The concept of hard data is an interesting one; I'm a physicist/law student/skeptic.

I would say I haven't seen a gender correlation with iPhone ownership, anecdotally (see esp. defition (2)).

The expression anecdotal evidence has two distinct meanings.

(1) Evidence in the form of an anecdote or hearsay is called anecdotal if there is doubt about its veracity: the evidence itself is considered untrustworthy or untrue.

(2) Evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalizing from an insufficient amount of evidence. For example "my grandfather smoked like a chimney and died healthy in a car crash at the age of 99" does not disprove the proposition that "smoking markedly increases the probability of cancer and heart disease at a relatively early age". In this case, the evidence may itself be true, but does not warrant the conclusion.

perhaps the commercial is comparing the outlook of Facebook to the Pre and letting consumers know the Pre UI will not change every other month and cause you to want to swith to something better . Only for you to come to realize that Facebook is still better than anyone else even with crappy changes!

As far as the debate about the use of facebook to promote the Pre... well, correct me if I'm wrong, but the Pre WILL interface with facebook a way that other phones do not-- a la synergy / cloud computing. No? Meaning, it won't merely have a "facebook app" or connect to facebook mobile, but that the Pre itself will be more integrated with facebook (contacts, etc).